Remembering Krauss' shenanigans with "carbohydrate", consisting of 50% sugars + 50% "complex" carbs (maltodextrin & amylopectin are complex carbs that hydrolyse into glucose so rapidly that they have a GI of 100 on the "Glucose=100" scale.), I suspected dodgy carbs in the "Low-fat" group.

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StellaBarbone
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I don't know that it's a "fix-up" job, but it shouldn't be seen as such a triumph for the forces of fat vs. the forces of flour. Neither team met their restriction goals with "low carb" getting 34% of their calories from carbs (~100 gm/day) and "low fat" getting 30% of their calories from fat. Additionally the lowER carb group was advised to eat lean protein and cook with olive and evil, evil canola oil rather than whiz a stick of butter into their morning coffee. The lowER carb group was also quite a bit lower in protein.

If team Fat had not "won", the anti-carbers would have been crying "No fair!" because the lower carb diet would not have been low enough in carbs to satisfy them. I'm going to keep eating protein augmented oatmeal for breakfast. Yawn.

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